PSYCHOTHERAPY
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What is Psychotherapy? Psychotherapy can be considered an alternative healing therapy that involves learning to increase self awareness in order to realize maximum human potential, thereby helping us to live more authentically with improved relationships, professional and financial successes, balance and grace. Psychotherapy is a general term describing many specific types of therapy such as talk therapy, narrative therapy, psycho-social therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, interpersonal therapy and counseling. Psychotherapy treatments are commonly used for psychological problems on an individual basis, with couples, families and groups. Forms of communication used in psychotherapy healing can include writing, artwork, music and dramatic theater. A psychotherapy practitioner may be a psychologist, marriage and family therapist, occupational therapist, counselor, psychiatric nurse, licensed clinical social worker or psychiatrist.
What we refer to as psychotherapy medicine has been practiced as far back as ancient Greece. It is thought that the first recorded use of psychotherapy was performed by Dr. Josef Breuer. Dr. Breuer would go on to be a close friend, teacher and collaborator with Sigmund Freud. Dr. Breuer observed a woman who suffered from paralysis felt better after she ‘talked’ to him about her symptoms. It is thought Sigmund Freud employed this ‘talking cure’ form of treatment and later created what we refer to as ‘psychoanalysis’ in Vienna, Austria in 1881. A trained neurologist, he began working with patients who were classified as hysterical. He continued practicing psychoanalysis into the 1930’s. His psychotherapy treatment work was later built on by Karl Jung, Anna Freud and Otto Frank among others. In the 1940’s, pioneer Carl Rogers brought forth a humanistic approach which rose to prominence by the 1950’s. Psychoanalysis, humanism and Ivan Pavlov’s work in behaviorism laid the cornerstones for teaching psychology in the United States today.
Psychotherapy is an alternative healing therapy that is a constantly growing. Today there are over 450,000 licensed psychotherapists in the United States. General research shows that the average length of psychotherapy treatment is between 6 and 10 sessions. It has been reported that Americans spend about $55 billion on psychotherapy annually.
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(Asst Editor: Carmen Turner-Schott, MSW, LISW, LCSW, CAATS )
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When You Hear Your Partner, Are You Listening?
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